JURASSIC WORLD Sequel To JURASSIC PARK; Park’s T-Rex To Return; New Featurette

For Jurassic Park fans who were…disappointed by The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III, they’re in luck. This summer’s installment, Jurassic World, is sending both installments’ events straight into extinction, Yahoo has learned.

Jurassic World, billed as a direct sequel to Stephen Spielberg’s original Jurassic Park, will apparently ignore the much-maligned sequels. While not explicitly writing them out of continuity, Jurassic World simply won’t bother addressing each installment’s events. But since both films took place on a separate island, writing them out was a fairly easy task for director Colin Trevorrow.

Instead, Jurassic World will only build off of the first installment’s story. Taking place twenty years after the events of Jurassic Park, the Chris Pratt-starring film will continue the story set on Isla Nubar, which now has a fully-functioning dinosaur theme park.

In a new interview with SlashFilm, Colin Trevorrow confirmed that the Tyrannosaurus Rex from Steven Spielberg‘s Jurassic Park will be making her return in Jurassic World. “The T. rex that’s in the film is the T. rex from the original Jurassic Park. She is 22 years older. But she’s not limping around.” He then added, “She’s still alive. She’s a little older, and she’s angry.” When asked whether or not we’d notice that it’s the same T-Rex, he responded, “I hope so. Yeah. I mean, we took the original design and obviously, technology has changed. So, it’s going to move a little bit differently, but it’ll move differently because it’s older. And we’re giving her some scars and we’re tightening her skin. So, she has that feeling of, like, an older Burt Lancaster. And this movie is her Unforgiven.”

What role will the T-Rex have in the film? A fight? A bite? Or will she just show and go. At this point, it could be anything, but I have a feeling that her role or scenes in the film will be pretty big! Speaking of “big scenes,” Colin Trevorrow also revealed that the Ankylosaurus will have a big scene in the film and said that there will be big appearances in the film and some that are small. “There’s an Ankylosaurus in this movie; was a really big scene and that’s just a bad ass dinosaur. And there are others. There’s smaller appearances, some bigger appearances.” He then elaborated and gave us a brief headcount of some of the dinosaurs in the film. “You know, we have an underwater reptile. I’m sure you’ve heard about that. That thing is pretty cool. We have a new kind of flying dinosaur that no one’s ever seen before, you know, in addition to the Pteranodons that are really scary. And I didn’t want to just throw the kitchen sink at it. Each of these movies has done a good job at just very carefully, in a measured way, increasing the new dinosaurs that you see. But, there’s a lot of dinosaurs in the movie for sure.”

Jurassic World – Early Look Featurette:

Steven Spielberg returns to executive produce the long-awaited next installment of his groundbreaking Jurassic Park series, Jurassic World. Colin Trevorrow directs the epic action-adventure based on characters created by Michael Crichton. The screenplay is by Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver and Trevorrow & Derek Connolly, and the story is by Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver. Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley join the team as producers.
Jurassic World stars Chris Pratt as Owen Grady, Bryce Dallas Howard as Claire Dearing, Vincent D’Onofrio as Vic Hoskins, Jake Johnson as Lowery, Irrfan Khan as Simon Masrani, Nick Robinson as Zach, Ty Simpkins as Gray, and B.D. Wong as Dr. Henry Wu. The movie is set to roar into theaters June 12.

Paramount Pictures Want A TRANSFORMERS CINEMATIC UNIVERSE

Paramount Pictures wants more Transformers. Taking a page from Fox’s incubation of three Avatar sequels and what Disney is doing to revive Star Wars with a sequels and spinoffs, the studio is negotiating with Akiva Goldsman to work with franchise director Michael Bay, exec producer Steven Spielberg and producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura to organize a “writer’s room” that will incubate ideas for a potential multi-part Transformers sequel, and come up with potential spinoff films based on the billion-dollar franchise culled from the Hasbro toy line.

After Transformers: Dark of the Moon, director Michael Bay famously planned to hand the franchise off to a new filmmaker who could semi-reboot the series. He subsequently changed his mind and came back to helm Age of Extinction himself, resulting in pretty much the same movie we’ve been watching for four films in a row now, only with more Mark Wahlberg and less Shia LaBeouf. Bay previously said he’d be handing Transformers 5 off to another filmmaker, and he subsequently opted to move forward with the Benghazi drama 13 Hours as his next film, but given his history you never really know.

It’s hardly surprising that Paramount would want to do this – for all their fluctuating quality levels, the Transformers franchise has been a robust box office performer for the studio, with even last year’s Age Of Extinction earning almost $1.1 billion around the world and breaking records in the lucrative Chinese market.

Source: Deadline

Steven Spielberg To Direct READY PLAYER ONE

Steven Spielberg looks to have found his next movie having attached himself to direct the bigscreen adaptation of “Ready Player One” for Warner Bros and Village Roadshow.

Ernest Cline penned the popular sci-fi novel, which the studio has been trying to get off the ground for some time with everyone from Robert Zemeckis to Christopher Nolan showing interest at one time or another.

Donald De Line, Dan Farah and Kristie Macosko Krieger will also produce. Zak Penn wrote the script. Jesse Ehrman and Racheline Benveniste will oversee for the studio.

The novel, published in 2011, is set in a not-too-distant future where advanced Internet, gaming and virtual reality technologies have changed the world as we know it and led to the creation of the Oasis, a virtual reality universe that people live in and value more than the real world.

“We are thrilled to welcome Steven back to Warner Bros. We had an historic series of collaborations in the 80s and 90s and have wanted to bring him back for years,” said Greg Silverman, President, Creative Development and Worldwide Production, Warner Bros. Pictures. “As for “Ready Player One,” we have always felt that Steven was the dream director for this project.”

The CAA-repped Spielberg recently finished production on the Tom Hanks drama “Bridge of Spies,” which bows in October. He will next start shoot the feature adaptation of Roahl Dahl’s “The BFG.”

Source: Variety 

JURASSIC WORLD: Best Look At JURASSIC WORLD’s D-Rex (Hybrid Dinosaur); Plus New Toys

Some new promotional images of Jurassic World’s genetically modified dinosaur have surfaced online. The images also include looks at other dinosaurs like the Tyrannosaurus Rex and Velociraptors. But it is D-Rex, aka Indominus Rex, that has piqued the interest of most would be moviegoers.

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Steven Spielberg returns to executive produce the long-awaited next installment of his groundbreaking Jurassic Park series, Jurassic World. Colin Trevorrow directs the epic action-adventure from a screenplay he wrote with Derek Connolly. Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley join the team as producers.

Starring: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ty Simpkins, Nick Robinson, Irrfan Khan, Vincent D’Onofrio, Jake Johnson, Omar Sy, BD Wong, Judy Greer

Directed By: Colin Trevorrow

GHOST IN THE SHELL: Scarlett Johansson To Star As Lead Role

It has now been confirmed that Avengers: Age of Ultron and Lucy star Scarlett Johansson has signed on to star in Ghost in the Shell, the upcoming Japanese anime adaptation helmed by Rupert Sanders (Snow White and the Huntsman).

Variety reveals that the Captain America: The Winter Soldier actress will take on the lead role in Ghost in the Shell. We heard last year that she had received an offer and that Suicide Squad’s Margot Robbie was in talks, but it is only now that Johansson has agreed to star.

The story follows the exploits of a member of a covert ops unit of the Japanese National Public Safety Commission that specializes in fighting technology-related crime. Rupert Sanders is on board to direct, and the script was penned by Bill Wheeler. Avi Arad and Steven Paul will produce, with Dreamworks and Steve Spielberg overseeing the adaptation.